Emma's Sixth Birthday!

Emma's Kung Fu Panda 2 birthday party was on Friday! We had 12 kids in here, including 2 new friends from Emma's class. The kids played a KFP2 game, and watched KFP2. We ate Chinese food, had cake, and opened presents! Emma was so excited about everything! On Saturday we skyped Nona and Zeyda (Matt's parents) and Uncle Avi, so she opened her gifts from them: a panda winter hat (so hot in NYC right now), Beauty and the Beast Squinkies, and a baby Jasmine doll. Yesterday, her actual birthday, she got $5 from Mom, Dad and Siri, so she was able to get the Hello Kitty watch that she's been saving for! Fun weekend!

Bible Pages and Chipboard

This is a Christmas gift that I just finished. I had some chipboard letters that I didn't know what to do with and an ugly wall hanging that I had gotten on sale a long time ago to use for a mosaic. I went with a Christmas theme and stuck chip board letters on my board to spell, " A Child Is Born." then I cut out the pages from an old Bible from the passage telling of the Messiah's birth (Luke 1-2) along with some passages from Matthew and Isaiah, (5 pages in total.) My husband dyed the pages in coffee for me and then I decopauged them over the chipboard letters. I mixed the pod podge with water and that was helpful to get the paper wet enough to manipulate around the letters. It was meticulous, but I did it in one day in between playing Candyland and baking birthday cakes. I haven't decided if I'm going to mod podge over the whole thing, and I might add some light application of brown paint around the letters to make them pop.

Autumn Dioramas

These pictures aren't super great, but this was the latest craft that we did together.  I cut up cereal boxes and secured the back of the diorama.  Then we just glued colored construction paper for the sky and grass.  The girls used many skills to make this, including ripping white for the clouds, drawing the trees, cutting little cuts to make the grass.  Then they glued ripped up pieces of red, orange, yellow, and brown for the background trees.  Next we made the 3D trees out of toilet paper rolls and brown pipe cleaner.  For the finishing touches the girls put fall leaves and pine cones on the 3D tree and on the ground.  Pretty cool fall project.

Siri's Birthday!

Last Friday Siri turned 4! We celebrated by inviting 10 neighborhood friends over for a Jake and the Neverland Pirates party! The kids decorated eye patches and watched Siri's 2 favorite episodes of the show. Then we fed them all chicken nuggets, fries, carrots and bananas before they set out on the treasure hunt, each with their own pouches to collect gold dablouns at each clue. The treasure was a Skully (the parrot on the show) piñata that I made. We smashed it in the living room, the kids added candy to their bags, and then we fed them cake! The 1 1/2 hour whirlwind ended with Siri opening presents and Matt ushering the kids out the door, which was easy since they all live next door!

Hair Cuts in September

Everyone got hair cuts before school started.  This is still a learning process with Ty, as the very first time I cut his hair I sliced a piece off his ear.  There is still a scar.

That little drill is his favorite thing.

August Visitors

It's way over due, but I wanted to put up some pictures of when Terry, Stacy, Elijah, and Miles came to visit in August.  Terry summited Mt. Rainier, and we had lots of fun with Stacy, Elijah, and cutie patootie Miles.  It is such a blessing that they made the trip out to see us.  The cousins get to know each other better, and I get a fantastic shopping buddy :)

Elijah as a tiger doctor.

Ty could not get enough of Miles!

Little Rascal